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It turns out you don't need your own propaganda department to counter North Korea's indoctrination of its citizens and maybe start a revolution — just sitcoms like "Friends" and the will to make the dangerous attempt to smuggle it into the North, where citizens lap up Western media.

Most people who live in Damascus fear voicing an opinion that doesn't echo that of either the government or the armed opposition. But some residents reject the bitter polarization that divides their country.

Israeli internal communications about the US-Iran nuclear negotiations reveal that Israel has been spying on the negotiators. Ironically, the US discovered that revelation — because the US has been spying on the Israelis. Wall Street Journal reporter Adam Entous says spying is raising tensions between the Obama and Netanyahu administrations.

Lee Kuan Yew will be remembered as the man who turned Singapore into a global economic power. But the long-ruling prime minister and founding father of Singapore didn't do so without clamping down on some of his people's rights.

Former Defense Department official Michèle Flournoy says a new government should give Afghans reasons to be hopeful about their country's future. And Omar Sharifi, an Afghan graduate student in the US, is on board.

When Russia moved into Crimea last year, even NATO admits it was caught off-guard. But now a top NATO general says the West is alert to Putin's plans, and is developing its own moves to stop him from expanding any further.

Exit polls from the latest Israeli election show Arab parties winning an historic number of seats in Israel's parliament. But it's still far from certain whether the unified Joint List will wield meaningful power under a new government.